Children

America's Deadly New Civil War

guest at Parents' Weekend early in my son's freshman

year in medical school (University of Arkansas for

Medical Sciences), we found ourselves touring an

anatomy lab with other proud moms and dads.

A lady behind us, as she pointed to a 26 week old

"fetus" that was preserved on display in a gallon-size

glass bottle, made the following comment to another

lady next to her: "That's the age my baby was." The

second lady responded, "Oh, you had a miscarriage at

26 weeks?" "No," the first lady replied, "I'm describing

my son -- the one who's now a freshman here in

med.ical school, who was born very prematurely at 26

oWeeks." The "fetus" in the bottle was hardly the size of

a full grown hamster. The story hardly needs any more

commentary.

"Fetus" is Latin for "bapy."

I was flabbergasted more recently to read that

"fetus" is Latin for "baby." Do the law and the courts

have any right to set priorities so that the convenience

of the mother takes precedence over the life of the

baby? Certainly not, says Supreme Court Justice

White.

Personally, I have never understood how some

good intentioned folks could conduct a candlelight vigil

for convicted murderers on death row and at the same

time be pro-abortion which is nothing more than